{"value":{"id":1753533,"askingMemberId":4474,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-01-08T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-01-13T00:00:00","uin":"22649","questionText":"To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether free schools will be affected by changes to charitable business rate relief for schools.","answeringBodyId":14,"answeringBodyName":"Treasury","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4797,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-01-17T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The Government is legislating to remove the eligibility of private schools in England to business rates charitable rate relief.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has defined a “private school” as a school at which full time education is provided for pupils of compulsory school age, where fees or other consideration are payable for that provision of full-time education.</p><p> </p><p>Legally, free schools are academies so do not charge fees for education. Therefore, they will not be impacted by the removal of charitable rate relief from private schools.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Free Schools: Business Rates","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1753533","method":"GET"}]}